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@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ in the Intel manuals, but may take as much as 4 cycles per byte longer,
depending on the state of the prefetch queue when the preceding
instruction ends.
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![](images/i.jpg) *The only true execution time for an instruction is a time measured in a certain context, and that time is meaningful only in that context.*
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> ![](images/i.jpg)
> The only true execution time for an instruction is a time measured in a
> certain context, and that time is meaningful only in that context.
What we *really* want is to know how long useful working code takes to
run, not how long a single instruction takes, and the Zen timer gives us